July 18, 2010Reader question about handling office gossip
Reading your article about handling gossip, I cannot see how stating that “anyone found gossiping will be dismissed” would work. How would you prove this? You would need to tape conversations and that would not be honest, so even threatening it gives little credence to the manager’s words.
Response:
What it did was give the people who were being drawn into it an external reason not to engage. But I wasn’t giving Steve’s approach a full endorsement. It was an example of a way that worked with some limitations.
I’ll make more distinctions at the July 27th webinar. Register at www.perfectphrases.com.
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